Acute and repeated activation of male sexual behavior by tail pinch: Opioid and dopaminergic mechanisms

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-85

  Leyton, Marco ^a,b   Stewart, Jane ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Copulation; Grooming; Motivation; Naloxone; Pimozide; Sensitization; Stress

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; OPIATE PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COPULATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; GROOMING; INNERVATION; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STIMULATION; TAIL; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; COPULATION; DOPAMINE; EJACULATION; FEMALE; GROOMING; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MOTIVATION; OPIOID PEPTIDES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TAIL;

EID: 0030185410     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02270-8     Document Type: Article

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